In today’s competitive job market, students need every advantage they can get. With DASSAULT SYSTEMES 3DEXPERIENCE® platform, SOLIDWORKS® Education has expanded its portfolio to bring cloud technology and collaboration into the classroom, boosting students’ employability. My friends Gian and John worked through a Hair Trimmer product design using SOLIDWORKS and our new technology applications, SOLIDWORKS Connected, 3D Sculptor and 3D Creator during a SOLIDWORKS Live event. This workflow shows an
Water, the source of life, intrigues and fascinates us. Yet, this precious resource is polluted by the way we consume it. Dassault Systèmes, through its initiative Water for Life, wants to address this challenge, and offers, through Virtual worlds, tremendous accelerators for measuring and optimizing the water footprint of businesses, supporting the growth of sustainability-focused innovation and empowering future generations through education. On June 8, this is Ocean Day so what about having
Betty Baker was the only female mechanical engineer to graduate from her college class. She was also the first female product engineer hired at Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc., over 35 years ago. The company is headquartered in Arcadia, Wisconsin, and manufactures and distributes home furniture products worldwide. “There are inherent challenges in being the only woman in the engineering department,” says Baker.
As we look to 2021, I know students will learn and be inspired from great educators and engineers to solve problems for our future. Civil Engineer, Gustave Eiffel created the global icon that continues to inspire us. What if Mr. Eiffel used the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to collaborate with his team of engineers? Engineering students today utilize tools like SOLIDWORKS to learn from the past and inspire our future.
As time closes in to end the year, I have met hundreds of educators and students – through video, chat, and email. Educators and students earned a “Perseverance” Award as they continue to learn with SOLIDWORKS on their home computer, the cloud app, xDesign on their school’s Chromebook, or SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids on a tablet. 2020 explored new software in and out of the classroom, showing that educators, no matter what the obstacles, continue to teach and students continue to learn. Around the
On February 8-11 2021, SOLIDWORKS will host the virtual event 3DEXPERIENCE World. You will witness thousands of designers, engineers, educators and students unite by the desire to collaborate, explore, and push the limits of how design can influence the future and how you work and learn today. The next generation of engineers and designers must be equipped to solve problems skillfully and efficiently to face the daunting challenges head. 3DEXPERIENCE World will provide students and educators the
We first met Danielle Boyer (Ojibwe) when she was 17. You may know her as one of the Main Stage speakers at 3DEXPERIENCE World 2020, as someone featured in past SOLIDWORKS Educational blogs, or from her appearance in our Born to Design podcast. She is the inventor of Every Kid Gets a Robot (EKGAR), a robot that costs less than $20 and goes to kids for free. Danielle’s Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math (STEAM) outreach continues to expand through her heritage.
New Cloud App Alert: 3DStory and 3DSketch The 3DEXPERIENCE platform is the tool for educators to run virtual classrooms – communicating to your class, teaching cloud CAD, collaborating on team projects, grading assignments and so much more. Our philosophy is to constantly enrich our 3DEXPERIENCE Edu portfolio. This ensures schools and students will always have access to cutting-edge technology to shape the workforce of the future. Now included with all 3DEXPERIENCE Edu roles are two new apps:
Listen! It’s Not Your Mom’s or Dad’s Machine Shop Anymore. The 3DEXPERIENCE Manufacturing and Design podcast series takes students, educators and professionals through the latest in technology. Hosted by my colleagues, John Milbery and Michael Buchli, this month features two innovative manufacturing education programs at the community college and high school level.
ATTENTION ALL STUDENTS – SHARE YOUR DESIGN PROJECTS! Students, your mission, should you choose to accept, is to embark on the student competition, Project of the Year 2020. For this assignment, you need to share a project created with any Dassault Systèmes solution before June 26, 2020. By accepting this mission, you have the opportunity to earn bragging rights and a large selection of high-tech prizes to win!
PART TWO: Using Apps for Kids Classroom and Tips Michael Steeves is a Senior Product Introduction Manager at SOLIDWORKS who volunteers to teach an after school enrichment class at his daughter’s elementary school. He utilizes Apps for Kids Classroom to teach the students about 3D modeling, printing, and more. Meet Michael and follow along with his popular bridge lesson in Part One. Apps for Kids Classroom is a powerful teaching tool for many reasons.
PART ONE: Bridge Lesson Michael Steeves had a simple desire: get involved with his local community. His eldest daughter just started kindergarten, and he wanted a way to connect with her and other kids. His daughter’s elementary school had an after school enrichment program packed with activities, all sorts of sports, dance classes, music lessons, art, tech classes where students learned how to use programming through Scratch. But there was nothing that taught 3D design.
On a sunny day in June, students at The Meadowbrook School in Weston, MA, were treated to a fun and exciting crash course in 3D modeling. SOLIDWORKS intern Lucas Saden taught two classes of 6th graders how to use the SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids Classroom interface to create keychains with their initials. I joined him as a teaching assistant. Classroom is an interface in Apps for Kids where educators can organize private, self-contained classes.
SOLIDWORKS World 2019 Floor Plan with the Education Zone highlighted SOLIDWORKS World 2019 Floor Plan with the Education Zone highlighted Notice something new in the SOLIDWORKS World 2019 Partner Pavilion? This year, SOLIDWORKS Education is proud to present the Education Zone Product Showcase. What does the future of 3D design look like? Come marvel at the variety of versatile products designed in SOLIDWORKS from the world of higher learning—from high schools to university engineering programs.
SOLIDWORKS World 2019 SOLIDWORKS World 2019 is coming up fast, and SOLIDWORKS Education has some fascinating and fun sessions lined up for students and educators. Let’s start things off with the Education & Research sessions scheduled for the first full day of the conference: Monday, February 11. Learn more about our sessions on Tuesday and Wednesday, aka Student Day, and be sure to check out the Education Zone Product Showcase in the Partner Pavilion! Perform at a Higher Level Through
Part Two: SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids Classroom in the Classroom SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids prints made by Jackie Tan's 6th graders SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids prints made by Jackie Tan’s 6th graders Jackie Tan is a Maker Lab teacher at South Tahoe Middle School in South Lake Tahoe, CA. After discovering and falling in love with 3D printing, she is in the process of creating a sustainable Maker program at her middle school, and is utilizing SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids to do so. Read Part One of her story
The DESTINATION: DEEP SPACE Presented By The Boeing Company Field in SOLIDWORKS Visualize The DESTINATION: DEEP SPACE Presented By The Boeing Company Field in SOLIDWORKS Visualize And we have lift off! The 2019 FIRST ® Robotics Competition, DESTINATION: DEEP SPACE Presented By The Boeing Company has officially begun, kicking off today at 10:30 on the official FIRST Twitch channel. The FIRST Robotics Competition The FIRST Robotics Competition Championships, 2018 FIRST (For Inspiration and
The time has come to announce the winner of the first SOLIDWORKS xDesign Challenge for FRC Teams! Teams had four weeks to work on their moon lander designs, and the submissions we received were out of the world! A panel of judges made up of SOLIDWORKS executives, including SOLIDWORKS CEO Gian Paolo Bassi, Director of Education Marie Planchard, Vice President of Research and Development Manish Kumar, Professional Online Solutions Senior Director Murielle Martin, and Vice President of Product
SOLIDWORKS xDesign Challenge for FRC Teams Theme Reveal It’s time to announce the theme of the SOLIDWORKS xDesign Challenge for FRC Teams! Participating FIRST teams will be designing a Moon Lander!
SOLIDWORKS xDesign Challenge for FRC Teams SOLIDWORKS xDesign Challenge for FRC Teams As FRC teams are gearing up for Destination: Deep Space, Dassault Systèmes SOLIDWORKS has an interstellar competition to help get them inspired! We are excited to announce the SOLIDWORKS xDesign Challenge for FRC Teams! FIRST Robotics teams within the United States have the chance to work on their creative design and collaboration skills and win a Mega Sponsorship Award of $10,000 from SOLIDWORKS. In addition
I recently took a trip to visit some of the schools I work in Montana to discuss their STEM Program. One of the schools I visited called Billings Career Center, a Career, and Technical education-focused school, had an exciting project they worked on with NASA using our STEM in a BOX program. The teacher and his students designed parts in SOLIDWORKS, then 3D printed prototypes, and machined the final versions. They then sent the finished versions to NASA.
“I love to be able to take a person’s dream and write it down in pictures for them to see. With SOLIDWORKS they can see all aspects of their design and have a video to show how to use it. I have learned so much about the versatility and the expansive ability in creating all sorts of models in SOLIDWORKS. It truly is an amazing program.
FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) 2017 is here! Shared by SOLIDWORKS mentor, Earl Hasz January 7, 2017 marked the kickoff of the exciting design and build competition season. SOLIDWORKS is a FRC Crown Sponsor. To all teams that apply for sponsorship at www.solidworks.com/FIRST, SOLIDWORKS will provide the SOLIDWORKS Robotics Suite of software tools.
“Simple things seem to derive the most pleasure from everyone” – Corporal Willy Corporal Willy with a Epilog 120 Watt Laser The very first time we tried doing a 3D carving, we took just two pieces of scrap wood and glued them together. I looked for two pieces that were not cracked or had any knots or other irregular surface features to them. However, as the machine finished the carving, a knot showed up right at the end of the Wolf’s nose. Rob made this one on a laser machine for a friend’s
